BrazilBeat Sound System

Saturday 4th of July @ PBC!
American Independence Day Party!

Fancy-dress as your favourite crazy American stereotype.. Prizes for best costumes!!

So dig out the glittery top-hat, dust off the wig, unearth that skintight unitard.. (or not!!) Hippie, surfer, playboy bunny, Marilyn Monroe, James Brown.. If all else fails, ...just come in red, white & blue!

DJ Mara California, BBSS, DJ Robba & MC Dreadeye will be dropping a very UN-patriotic mix of funk, rock, hiphop, electro-house, dubstep, drum & bass.

10pm, $5
first 20 in get free CD
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BrazilBeat Sound System kick off this winter carnival season with a Mardi-gras costume party in Wellington at the San Francisco Bathhouse 6th June.

SPECIAL GUESTS: Maaka Phat (drums), Sheba Williams (voca...ls), DJ Andy Day, MC Jinetero and Dr Falconer.

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As the shock of the first cold weather blast wears off, as workday daydreams begin to turn to snowboarding and skiing... soft powder beneath the boots... and suddenly winter is here!

BrazilBeat Sound System winter tour

Sat 6 June Wellington San Fran Bathhouse
Fri 26 June Queenstown Revolver
Sat 27 June Wanaka Red Rock
Tue 30 June Queenstown AMEX Winter Festival - Mardi-gras main stage 5:30pm
Tue 30 June Queenstown<Mardi-gras after-party> @ Revolver
Sat 4 July Gisborne Poverty Bay Club
Thurs 16 July Dunedin <Re-O de Janeiro> @ Alibi

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In February this year, the 10th Annual Cuba Street Carnival in Wellington brought the capitol to its feet.

At midnight, after the Illuminated Parade had snaked its way through the streets and batucada groups under the regency of samba master Carlos Ferreira had battled it out, the masses were at the Havana Club stage in Courtenay Place to watch BrazilBeat Sound System.

Percussionist/MC Nego Beto worked the crowd into a frenzy with his polyrhythmic handiwork and on the mic. DJ Mara kept the beats coming in an anthemic blast of Brazilian baile-funk basslines, distorted electro stabs and samba breaks. The throng responded with hands in the air as far as the eye could see.

BrazilBeat have not played in Wellington since that night. But Saturday 6th of June, The San Francisco Bath House will resonate with the sweet sound of conga skins tightened to perfection, the rat-a-tat of the repinique and deep bass that hits home in the pit of the stomach.

Mardi-gras masquerade is the way to go, and prizes will be handed out to those sporting the hottest fancy-dress!

SPECIAL GUESTS: Maaka Phat (drums), Sheba Williams (vocals), DJ Andy Day, MC Jinetero and Dr. Falconer.

BrazilBeat Sound System is an electronic band featuring DJ and live percussion. BBSS originated in San Francisco, California, and have been uplifting crowds across New Zealand since 2001. Their genre-bending mashup of roots, baile-funk, breakbeats, dub is pumped up by tight percussive arrangements. BBSS released their debut album “Nova” in November 2007 on their own label Belezza.

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